Rogue Printer Dooms Google

Jordan Sargent · 10/18/12 09:54PM

Google is one of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world, but on Thursday the tech giant was brought to its knees by a printer malfunction. Well, that and the fact that the company's net income in this year's third quarter fell 20 percent to $2.18 billion (... and cue the violins). It was an all-around terrible day to be working for Google (except for the part where you could go eat lunch at one of the best cafeterias in America, that part probably never gets old):

Your Guide to RapGenius.com, the Controversial Rap Lyrics Site That Just Landed a $15 Million Investment

Jordan Sargent · 10/18/12 08:53PM

This month's world-changing tech innovation: a rap lyrics website. Lyric-annotation site RapGenius.com just landed a $15 million investment, leading to a press blitz this week as tech and entertainment sites rushed to profile the three kids who are going to change the game. But why'd they land so much money? And why are so many rap fans and critics shaking their heads? Here's our guide.

Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Mitt Romney For the Stupidest Possible Reason

Jordan Sargent · 10/18/12 06:49PM

Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a rich white man who has turned his allegiance to Mitt Romney — I'll give you a moment to regain your composure. Okay. On Wednesday, Adams wrote a mildly coherent blog post explaining why he will be voting for Mitt Romney in November, one that starts with a hypothetical situation that includes the phrase, "For the record, President Obama did not technically kill anyone to get elected."

Married Dinesh D'Souza's Mistress: Also Married

Jordan Sargent · 10/18/12 06:30PM

Another layer of intrigue has been revealed in the saga of the downfall of conservative academic and rising Evangelical star Dinesh D'Souza, who resigned from his perch atop King's College today after it was revealed that he had a fiancee while also having a wife. Right Wing Watch reports that his mistress/fiancée, Denise Odie Joseph II, was also married, and said in April that she was going to vote for Mitt Romney, "because [her] husband told her to."

Caity Weaver · 10/18/12 04:29PM

Rapper Drake graduated from high school yesterday. He dropped out in 2001 to portray a fake high schooler on Degrassi.

Adrian Chen · 10/18/12 03:47PM

Here's the first clip of Michael Brutsch aka Violentacrez's interview with CNN

Old People Now Living in Sin Also

Hamilton Nolan · 10/18/12 03:43PM

When we hear about unmarried young couples living together in sin, we're like "Sure, kids these days are living in sin, rejecting god, and fornicating nightly in Lucifer's glory, what else is new?" But now we hear that older couples are also living together in sin. Aren't you older couples old enough to know the teachings of Jesus, about not living in sin?

Robert Kessler · 10/18/12 03:20PM

Citizens of #lochtenation: your leader is on tonight's 30 Rock. He won't be racing Prince Harry, that was real life.

Hamilton Nolan · 10/18/12 02:48PM

Disillusioned young Westerners go to India, meet holy men, go slightly insane. There's a name for that.

Boy Scouts of America's 'Perversion Files' Released

Robert Kessler · 10/18/12 02:39PM

After a two-year-long court battle, records kept by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child abusers have been released online. The records were kept from 1965 to 1985 and contain the names of men who were banned from volunteering with the Boy Scouts after they were accused of abusing the young men entrusted to them. The so-called "perversion files" also contain the names of men banned on suspicion of being gay.

Boston Mayor Doesn't Want Free Vibrators Distributed, Apparently Hates Female Self-Tickling

Camille Dodero · 10/18/12 02:25PM

Massachusetts, you sure have been wacky this week. You're a major accomplice in this week's "Binders full of women" deluge (which Romney lied about too). You had brother-and-sister thieves pretending to be screwing in a bathroom to avoid jail time. Plus those roving coyotes, dumped lottery winners, cartoony bus-driver assaults, and your awful accents are ruining the flow of American Horror Story. And now you don't like a little private tickling?